Giant’s Snowballs by Bryan Fazekas, published in & Magazine Issue 8 These 2′ diameter snowballs detect as magical, and observers will note that they will not melt in above freezing temperatures. When thrown by a being of 21 strength or greater, they detonate on impact in a 20′ radius blast of ice. Any creature struck […]
Gem of Scroll Reading by Bryan Fazekas, published in & Magazine Issue 12 This small, whitish-translucent gem is greatly sought after by spell casters. The gem is 3 inches wide,1 inch tall, and 1/2 inch thick, with flat bottom and top. It is usable only by spell casters (cleric, druid, magic user, illusionist); if one […]
Gems of Explosion by Bryan Fazekas, published in & Magazine Issue 3 These gems are of 100 gp base value and are noticeable only for the quality of the stone and the cut. They detect as magical and if held for 2 segments will begin to glow with an inner light that illuminates a 5’ […]
June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 1 in May 2012. Written by Bryan Fazekas. A common lament among Dungeon Masters (DMs) is the difficulty of keeping low level parties alive. Some DMs seem to kill off party after party, which can dampen the fun for both the DM and the […]
October 2006 This article was written in December 2005, formalizing ideas I had used many moons ago. Originally published in Footprints, published by Dragonsfoot, I’m republishing it here in HTML format. Copyright 1990, 2005-2006, 2011-2014 by Bryan Fazekas, all rights reserved. This document may not be published or reproduced in any fashion except with explicit […]
In Dragon Magazine #80 in the column Leomund’s Tiny Hut Lenard Lakofka published a revised saving throws table that smoothed out the incremental changes by level, e.g., instead of the Magic User changing saving throws every 4 levels, slight changes were made more often. Upon reading Lenard’s article I immediately adopted his version of this […]
This page contains a revised Combat Matrix for all levels and hit dice of characters and monsters. The Combat Matrix presented here is reproduced from an article published by Lenard Lakofka in Dragon Magazine #80. Lenard’s article was on the “5% Rule” which evened the attack tables out and made the progression more even. I […]
June 2013 I originally named this wonderfully useful NPC “Panamon Creel”, after the character from Terry Brook’s novel The Sword of Shannara. For publication in & Magazine, Issue 4 in February 2013, I changed the name to avoid copyright infringement. This article is published here in its published format. Paquin Crii History Paquin Crii was born […]
In February & March of 2009 a couple of threads started in the Dragonsfoot forums, where people offered survival tips for the dungeon and wilderness. Some of the tips were serious, some less so … some VERY much less so. I took the action to compile the two lists, which I organized into one and […]